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James Francis Gunn Jr. (born August 5, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He began his career as a screenwriter in the mid-1990s, starting at Troma Entertainment with Tromeo and Juliet (1996). He then began working as a director, starting with the horror-comedy film Slither (2006), and moving to the superhero genre with Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), The Suicide Squad (2021), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). In 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery hired Gunn and his longtime producer, Peter Safran, to serve as co-chairmen and co-CEOs of DC Studios. Under DC Studios, Gunn co-produced and executive produced every film and television series in the DC Universe (DCU) media franchise alongside Safran, which serves as a soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). In the DCU, he created the series Creature Commandos (2024) and wrote and directed the film Superman (2025). He also wrote and directed the web series James Gunn's PG Porn (2008–2009), the HBO Max original series Peacemaker (2022–2025) and the Disney+ original special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022). Other work for which he is known include writing for the 2004 remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), writing the live-action adaptation of Scooby Doo (2002), and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), writing and producing the horror-action film The Belko Experiment (2016), producing the superhero-horror film Brightburn (2019), and contributing to comedy-anthology film Movie 43 (2013) (directing the segment "Beezel") and the 2012 hack-and-slash video game Lollipop Chainsaw. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Gunn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
James Gunn
Director
for Director in DOOM PATROL: PAIN AND WAX
Suggested by jake_blastercaster24
The Doom Patrol meet their match in the Extra Dimensional being, Red Jack. Jack is immensely powerful and gains power from people's suffering. [He has been called by many names, Spring-Heeled Jack, Jack the Ripper, Saucy Jack, etc]. Red Jack targets innocent civilians and either kills them, tortures them or somehow weirdly transforms them into butterflies and keeps them in his collection, all in which grants him more power through their pain and suffering. How are the Doom Patrol gonna beat him? Meanwhile, Dr Niles Caulder's daughter, young Dorothy Spinner who has the ability to bring imaginary beings into and out of creation is struggling with one of those beings; The Candlemaker. He is a super powerful entity, attempting to turn her to the dark side. But can Dorothy fight it or would the Doom Patrol have to go up against the Candlemaker too? [The team will meet a former member of Doom Patrol who will return to the team, who has the ability of Metamorphosis: The Element-Woman.]
